Rural Payments and Services

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Listed here is the number and level of separate breaches found under each Statutory Management Requirement (SMRs) and Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAECs) during Cross Compliance-related inspections.

There is also information relating to the number and level of payment reductions applied to claims once the various capping and repetition rules have been applied.

Please note:

• up to 2018 breach figures are based on the number of overall breaches of a particular GAEC/SMR
• 2018 breaches figures are based on the number of individual breaches of a GAEC/SMR. Multiple breaches of the same GAEC/SMR by the business (identified by the “Reference number”) are shown on separate rows of the worksheets. The exception is SMR 7 (Cattle ID and Traceability) where each business is only listed once with multiple breaches shown in separate columns
• although the 2018 figures provide more detailed breach information, the difference in format doesn’t allow direct like-for-like comparisons to be made with previous years

Please note: 'Current statistics' listed here are the most recently available.

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